Sports training and coaching

Sport has the potential to be a powerful platform for positive change.

Kreative Kindertanzstunden immer aufs Neue zu gestalten, bleibt eine Herausforderung.

Here's the guide for current and prospective coaches that covers every aspect of effectively coaching youth basketball: teaching good sportsmanship, running an effective practice, coaching to a player's age and skill level, teaching offensive and defensive skills and drills, rules of the game, executing winning plays and strategies, dealing with parents.

Lifecourse research in physical activity tracks long-term trends in physical activity behaviours and gives an insight into the link between a physically active lifestyle and later-life health outcomes.

This book offers new, multidisciplinary perspectives on esports, one of the most rapidly growing sectors in the sports and leisure industries.

Co-ordination of movement plays a key role in human development and is an important area in sport and health sciences.

Medienberichte preisen Bewegung oft als Allheilmittel.

This book offers an overview of contemporary debates in social justice and equity within Physical Education (PE) and Youth Sport (YS).

Sports nutrition has evolved beyond what to eat and how much to eat to now include the question of when to eat.

This ground-breaking book is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of how organizational psychology can be used to understand and improve performance in elite sport.

Exercise referral describes the process of consultation, planning and instructing physical activity programmes and applying appropriate behaviour change strategies for clients presenting a range of low- to medium-risk medical conditions.

Motor skill acquisition and athlete development practices are rapidly evolving.

This is the first research methods book to focus entirely on physical education and youth sport.

The term chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) has recently gained a significant amount of media coverage.

Philosophical Perspectives on Play builds on the disciplinary and paradigmatic bridges constructed between the study of philosophy and play in The Philosophy of Play (Routledge, 2013) to develop a richer understanding of the concept and nature of play and its relation to human life and value.

This book takes a radically different approach to the challenge of coaching in strength and conditioning.

Clinical sport psychology is a rapidly growing field that brings together research and clinical interventions from both clinical psychology and sport and performance psychology.

Designed specifically for players aged 7 to 11, this manual contains a wide range of progressive practice drills to help young players develop.

Advanced Statistics for Kinesiology and Exercise Science is the first textbook to cover advanced statistical methods in the context of the study of human performance.

Brazilian Mobilities presents an overview of the diversity of mobility studies developed in Brazil.

Work smarter, not harder.

The world-class National Palace Museum (NPM) in Taiwan possesses a repository of the largest collection of Chinese cultural treasures of outstanding quality.

They are familiar scenes: sports fans turning on each other in acts of violence, and mobs of sports fans flooding onto the field or out into the streets.

Advanced Rowing brings together a selection of leading experts in the sport of rowing, including international head coaches from New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland and Denmark, who have all coached crews to World and Olympic medals.

Data Analysis and Research for Sport and Exercise Science is tailored to suit undergraduate sports and exercise science students seeking a clear understanding of data and statistics to support their scientific research.

Performance analysis has become an essential tool for coaches, athletes, sports organisations and academic researchers.

'Bill offers you an opportunity to grow your mind and think like a champion.

The Routledge Handbook of Biomechanics and Human Movement Science is a landmark work of reference.

Ergonomics is concerned with the 'fit' between people and their work.

Die körperlichen Belastungen von Fallschirmjägern der Bundeswehr sind höher denn je.

Eating disorders (EDs) have become a social epidemic in the developed world.

The new edition of this leading text is an essential guide to promoting healthy behaviour in a multi-cultural society, providing a holistic stance that integrates both physical and mental health and wellbeing.

Health and Elite Sport is the first book to critically examine the relationship between participation in high performance sport and health outcomes.

Doping has become one of the most important and high-profile issues in contemporary sport.

This book introduces Cooperative Learning as a research-informed, practical way of engaging children and young people in lifelong physical activity.

This book offers an overview of contemporary debates in social justice and equity within Physical Education (PE) and Youth Sport (YS).

Ben Hogan's The Modern Fundamentals of Golf is the best-selling sports book ever, with over six million copies sold worldwide.

Highly skilled athletes are produced by technologies of training which seek to create the athlete as a singular identity.

Diese Einführung aus der Reihe „Was ist eigentlich …?

For six extraordinary years around the turn of the millennium, the Yankees were baseball's unstoppable force, with players such as Paul O'Neill, Derek Jeter, and Mariano Rivera.

Behavior Management in Physical Education provides evidence-based, practical guidance on behavior management in the physical education classroom.

Research Methods for Sports Studies is a comprehensive, engaging and practical textbook that provides a grounding in qualitative and quantitative research for students studying programmes related to sport and physical activity.

The first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists considers the mind–body relationship from the perspective of athletic skill and sports practice.

This practical guide, written by a leading BIKE FIT expert, takes you step-by-step through the BIKE FIT process to ensure you maximise your cycling potential.

This book assesses the landscape of physical education today and the issues that shape it as a curriculum subject, particularly in the era of COVID-19.